'Wit' makes Broadway debut with Cynthia Nixon
Curtains rose last night, January 26, on the opening night of the first-ever Broadway staging of "Wit." The limited engagement premiere, starring Cynthia Nixon, plays at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre through March 11. Nixon portrays university professor Dr. Vivian Bearing, who is undergoing an experimental treatment for Stage IV, metastatic ovarian cancer. Throughout the course of the play, she reflects on her life …